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Word: beds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night there was a speechless dinner at the Château, at which the King dawdled over snowbird breasts on toast and trout, while the Queen, who is apparently dieting, ate almost nothing, fussed with her gloves until at dinner's end the King led the way to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Peruvian doctors, Surgeon Lozada performed a Caesarean section on 70-lb. Lina, brought forth a lusty, six-pound baby boy. But bewildered Lina would have nothing to do with her child, could not comprehend that he belonged to her. Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Mother | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...which he tries to keep up in his spare time. He seldom goes out, dislikes social functions, steers clear of parties and tries to keep at work. When he feels overworked, which sometimes happens after a hard day, he takes a turn around the block and goes to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Next to tossing off a round phrase of his own or snagging a quote from Shakespeare, John Llewellyn Lewis likes nothing more than to be shaved in bed. At times of stress, he indulges this soothing fancy whenever a barber is within telephone call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cancelled Debt | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...night of February 14 Henry Ewald went to a small, unpainted wooden house in Mobile's red-light district. A few minutes later the door burst open, a flash bulb glared and Crusader Ewald was photographed in bed with a man and a woman. Before he was blackjacked, tough Henry Ewald knocked three of the intruders sprawling and threw a fourth out of the window. He staggered home, called his publisher, Ralph Bradford Chandler, told him he had been framed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Mobile | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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